P4 on OVS/other non BMV2 s/w switches

[taylort79]

Hi all, I’ve been creating P4 labs on BMV2 switches using the P4lang tutorials which has been great, however I wanted to know whether OVS (or any other production grade software switches) easily support P4 programmability? I’ve seen a few Github projects (Pisces etc) which all look interesting however I wondered if there is a more standard way of using OVS with P4.

Thanks for any help.

[DavideS]

Hi @taylort79

here some videos related to OVS+P4:

• P4-OVS Split Architecture - Namrata Limaye, Brian O'Connor, & Ajay Kumar Dubey - YouTube
• P4 OVS Tutorial - Intel, ONF, and Orange - YouTube
• P4 in Open vSwitch with OfP4 - Ben Pfaff - YouTube

While if you are looking for high-performance switches you have this projects:

• https://github.com/ipdk-io/networking-recipe/blob/main/docs/guides/dpdk-guide.md
• GitHub - NIKSS-vSwitch/nikss: Native In-Kernel P4-programmable Software Switch for Software-Defined Networking (previously PSA-eBPF)